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Art versus Business- what do you prefer?
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Artists create out of their experience and attempt to create important pieces for society and themselves to learn from and dont care who likes it because it is what they believe, feel, and have created..
Business people make comodities for profit and want to reach as many people as possible to sell as many units as possible..
Frank Moore once said; " Your art is like your baby daughter, why would you sell her into prostitution to make your life a little easier? You should do everything you can to support your art not try to get your art to support you." Keep your day job and make beautiful music and never change for others or comprimise your voice.
I like peoples raw unadulterated voice. The screams of human suffering. Hardcore from the reservation. its a window to the soul. I think everyones voice is equally valuable and therefor i like "good" and "Bad" art equally.
good and bad being weird relative terms like Normal Human .
what do you think about art and business.? theres a movement for people to learn business skills for their art to be able to fund their lifes needs and wants. Lots of people want to be successful in the art or music business.
How do you define success?
My drummer george and I changed our definitions of sucess 10 years ago and it made us happier. We asked ourselves the question, In the phrase, I want to MAKE IT in the music world, what does "it" stand for?
For some people its money and fame that defines success and so just replace the word "IT" with the word "MONEY". Then the sentence reads, I want to Make MONEY in the music world. For us its was great art or music . So we replaced the word "it" with MUSIC and the sentence now reads, We want to make great MUSIC in the world of music.
If we eat out of dumpsters and make great music we are successful. Our definition is based on art not business or monetary gain. We define our success based on weather we feel we have created good music. If we are Making Music, we are successful and we do everything possible to support our music and our ablities to continue to create music we love.
How do you define success for yourself in the music or art worlds??
would love to hear your inputs.
peace,
John the Baker
Business people make comodities for profit and want to reach as many people as possible to sell as many units as possible..
Frank Moore once said; " Your art is like your baby daughter, why would you sell her into prostitution to make your life a little easier? You should do everything you can to support your art not try to get your art to support you." Keep your day job and make beautiful music and never change for others or comprimise your voice.
I like peoples raw unadulterated voice. The screams of human suffering. Hardcore from the reservation. its a window to the soul. I think everyones voice is equally valuable and therefor i like "good" and "Bad" art equally.
good and bad being weird relative terms like Normal Human .
what do you think about art and business.? theres a movement for people to learn business skills for their art to be able to fund their lifes needs and wants. Lots of people want to be successful in the art or music business.
How do you define success?
My drummer george and I changed our definitions of sucess 10 years ago and it made us happier. We asked ourselves the question, In the phrase, I want to MAKE IT in the music world, what does "it" stand for?
For some people its money and fame that defines success and so just replace the word "IT" with the word "MONEY". Then the sentence reads, I want to Make MONEY in the music world. For us its was great art or music . So we replaced the word "it" with MUSIC and the sentence now reads, We want to make great MUSIC in the world of music.
If we eat out of dumpsters and make great music we are successful. Our definition is based on art not business or monetary gain. We define our success based on weather we feel we have created good music. If we are Making Music, we are successful and we do everything possible to support our music and our ablities to continue to create music we love.
How do you define success for yourself in the music or art worlds??
would love to hear your inputs.
peace,
John the Baker
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